Daimlers for large o-m-o expansion
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• Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd, has announced bus chassis orders to a value of over £500,000. The largest individual order comes from the Belfast Corporation transport department, who have placed an order for 80 Daimler Fleetline 18ft. 6in.-wheelbase, rearengined buses with Gardner 6LX 10.45-litre diesel power units. Thirty of these vehicles will be single-deckers of approximately 36ft. overall length; the other 50 will be 33-ft. doubledeckers. All will be for one-man operation.
This order brings the numberof rear-engined Daimler buses in service and on order with Belfast Corporation to a total of 279.
Other operators, whose new Fleetline orders make up the £21m-plus, include the Scottish Bus Group (W. Alexander & Son (Fife) Ltd.): municipal undertakings (Darlington, Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield and South Shields): and private companies (S. Turner & Sons Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent and Harper Bros. (Heath Hayes) Ltd., Cannock, Staffordshire).